The town is bustling; there are new faces everywhere. It is the beginning of semester in St Andrews – a good time to reflect on what it is I’m actually trying to teach my students. Medievalists are often haunted at least a little by the ghost of ‘relevance’. Guy Halsall at York was more than… Continue reading Teaching Power and Identity After Rome
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Worlds of Arthur
Guy Halsall, Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages (Oxford University Press, 2013) “Historians have thought for centuries that King Arthur was only a myth, but the legend was based on a real hero, torn between his private ambitions and his public sense of duty” (Official synopsis for the 2004 film, King… Continue reading Worlds of Arthur
